Andrew Somoskey
A visual artist originally from Mantua Ohio, earned his MFA in studio arts from Michigan State University in 2019, and a BFA in painting & drawing and art history minor from The University of Akron in 2011. His work and recent installations incorporates the activity of encoding and decoding information that is central to our contemporary existence and his artistic practice. While the systems referenced within his process center around textual and symbolic language, they also refer to the history of abstraction and the disruptions, complexities, and migrations of meaning that occur when languages and systems interface. Specific texts, graphs, and symbols are used in conjunction with personal notational systems including the idiosyncratic strategies he developed to mitigate his dyslexia and dysgraphia.
“My ever-growing vocabulary of forms and open process often results in immersive installations that blur the line between process and product. Speculation that the installation can be endlessly rearranged challenges the idea of a singular representation. Acknowledging my complicity in this constant process of encoding and decoding, I question the fixedness of language, while simultaneously making more visible the role language and similar structures have in shaping our conception of the world.”